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White Weasel - Pueblo; [White Weasel, Cheyenne]

Illegible writing on verso.

 

Sharp's first depiction of a man named White Weasel was of a Pueblo man in an exhibition at the University Club in Cincinnati in 1912.  White Weasel was referred to as a Cheyenne late in Sharp's career when this portrait and a painting he titled Buffalo Horn for the Paleface (#388) were exhibited in Tulsa in 1947 at the Gilcrease Foundation.  It appears that Sharp may have misremembered.

 

Stylistically, this painting was surely completed around 1920. One of nearly a half dozen paintings from this period that pictured White Weasel was titled White Weasel - Pueblo and appeared at the Hotel Gibson galleries in 1919. This is undoubtedly that canvas. That same year Sharp exhibited three other White Weasel paintings at the Hotel Gibson galleries, including Buffalo Horn for the Paleface (#388).

 

White Weasel - Pueblo; [White Weasel, Cheyenne]

Record ID: 439

Date: ca. 1919; [1890]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24 x 17 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.465


Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955

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Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.